PHYLIP multiple alignment format

Description

Format for Joe Felsenstein's phylogenetic applications. Typically has a 10 letter maximum length for the sequence ID, a limitation that is not present in the FASTA format.

There are two flavors, interleaved and sequential. BioPerl generally tries to parse both of these but is more successfull with the interleaved. Some more improvements to testing this is a suitable project for someone.